About the IV Global Summit

Introduction and Background

Diamond Open Access is a scholar-led and community-owned scholarly publishing model without costs for authors or readers, making knowledge available as a global public good via non-commercial infrastructures. It promotes equity, inclusion, sustainability, multilingualism, and bibliodiversity, aligning directly with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI20), the UNESCO 2021 Recommendation on Open Science, the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, and the UN Global Digital Compact. Diamond OA is supported by governments, universities, public institutions, and funding organisations whose core mission includes performing or promoting research for the benefit of society.

Following the Global Summits in Toluca, Mexico (2023), Cape Town, South Africa (2024), and Bengaluru, India (2026), the IV Global Summit in Jakarta will consolidate progress, address unresolved implementation challenges, and strengthen leadership from Southeast Asia and the wider Global South. The Summit places particular emphasis on the practical conditions required to sustain Diamond OA: rigorous quality, research integrity, community governance, long-term preservation, and equitable investment.

Indonesia is strategically positioned to host this milestone dialogue because its universities, research institutions, professional associations, and public bodies operate a remarkably large and diverse scholarly journal ecosystem. Hosted at the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia (Perpusnas) in Jakarta, the summit provides an authentic public-knowledge setting aligned with open scholarship values, bridging national experience with global policy and community infrastructure.

Core Concept of the Summit

The Summit retains the three IOC-agreed topics — Quality, Integrity, and Sustainability — and uses them as analytical implementation lenses for the six Action Plans of the Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan 2026. Community ownership and community-led governance serve as the common foundation across all action areas without being confined to a separate isolated track.

Quality: Publishing, Editorial Quality, and Peer-Review Innovation

Action Plan Alignment: AP3, AP4, AP5, and AP6 (with policy implications under AP1)

• Strengthen inclusive and proportionate editorial quality assurance supported by transparent governance and public-interest policy recognition.
• Promote transparent and community-led peer-review innovation, including open review, post-publication review, reviewed preprints, and Publish-Review-Curate (PRC), with formal recognition of reviewing, editing, and curation as scholarly contributions.
• Connect quality assurance with responsible research assessment so that publications, diverse outputs, data, software, and curation are evaluated on quality and contribution rather than journal prestige or commercial metrics.
• Deploy AI-assisted editorial and review tools transparently and responsibly, ensuring meaningful human oversight, accountability, and training for editors.
• Advance open, interoperable, and multilingual metadata, persistent identifiers, preservation, and community-governed discovery to safeguard global visibility and bibliodiversity.

Integrity: Research Integrity, Publication Ethics, and Responsible AI

Action Plan Alignment: AP1, AP3, AP4, AP5, and AP6

• Safeguard research and publication integrity through transparent governance, ethical publishing practices, methodological openness, and responsible stewardship of outputs and data.
• Build proportionate human-led responses to plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, image/data manipulation, paper mills, authorship misconduct, and conflicts of interest rather than relying on automated determinations alone.
• Establish transparent policies for generative AI and automated systems used by authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers, including disclosure, confidentiality, data protection, and verification.
• Align research assessment and incentive systems with integrity by eliminating incentives that reward publication volume or narrow commercial indicators at the expense of sound scholarship.
• Protect rights retention, linguistic diversity, and equitable participation so integrity standards do not unintentionally disadvantage smaller, multilingual, or under-resourced communities.

2.3 Sustainability: Community Stewardship, Investment, and Long-Term Preservation

Action Plan Alignment: AP1, AP2, AP3, AP4, AP5, and AP6

• Ensure resilient long-term access to articles, reviews, versions, data, and software through interoperable repositories, preservation networks, and decentralized archiving.
• Strengthen open metadata and persistent identifier ecosystems, including DOI, ORCID, and ROR, to support provenance, discoverability, continuity, and multilingual visibility.
• Develop sustainable and predictable funding models, including progressive redirection of legacy subscription/APC expenditures toward multi-year support for community services.
• Align institutional incentives with sustainability by recognizing editorial labor, infrastructure development, curation, and community contributions.
• Invest in shared community-governed infrastructure and workforce stability while protecting Diamond OA initiatives from commercial enclosure, acquisition, vendor lock-in, or pressures to introduce APCs.
• Preserve AI-related scholarly records, methods, provenance, and computational documentation where needed for reproducibility and verification.